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Circulations in the
Global History of Art
Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton
University, USA, Catherine Dossin, Purdue
University, USA and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel,
cole normale suprieure, France
Studies in Art Historiography

Like people and ideas, art objects travel, and they have been doing so from time
immemorial. Surprisingly, art history has largely neglected to systematically examine
these artistic circulations and their various consequences. By analysing the traffic of
material cultural around the globe, this volume boosts the study of a key dynamic
feature of art worldwide, characteristically investigated by a modern-day art history
that is increasingly rejuvenating itself by developing a global perspective in both time
and space.
Wilfried van Damme, Leiden University, The Netherlands,
co-editor of World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches

The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of
artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of
transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a
strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures,
and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized
art world.
The editors introduction provides an account of the historical
background to this approach to global art history, stresses the
inseparable bond of theory and practice, and suggests a revaluation
of materialist historicism as an underlying premise. Individual
contributions to the book provide an overview of current reflection
and research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history
and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety
of methods and approaches to the treatment of different periods,
regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and
methodology and presenting individual case studies. An Afterword
by James Elkins gives a critique of the present project. The book thus
deliberately leaves discussion open, inviting future responses to the
large questions it poses.
Contents: Introduction: reintroducing circulations: historiography
and the project of global art history, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann,
Catherine Dossin, and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel; Reflections on world
art history, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Art history and Iberian
worldwide diffusion: westernization/globalization/Americanization,
Serge Gruzinski; Circulation and beyond the trajectories of vision
in early modern Eurasia, Monica Juneja; Circulations: early modern
architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian borderland, Carolyn C. Guile;
Cultural transfers in art history, Michel Espagne; Spatial translation
and temporal discordance: modes of cultural circulation and
internationalization in Europe (second half of the 19th and first half of
the 20th century, Christophe Charle; Mapping cultural exchange: Latin
American artists in Paris between the wars, Michele Greet; The global
NETwork: an approach to comparative art history, Piotr Piotrowski;
Global conceptualism? Cartographies of conceptual art in pursuit of
decentering, Sophie Cras; The German century? How a geopolitical
approach could transform the history of Modernism, Catherine Dossin
and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel; Afterword, James Elkins; Index.
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 circulations in the global history of art

The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts
and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural
encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights
the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the
dynamics at work in the current globalized art world.
The editors introduction provides an account of the historical background
to this approach to global art history, stresses the inseparable bond of theory
and practice, and suggests a revaluation of materialist historicism as an
underlying premise. Individual contributions to the book provide an overview
of current reflection and research on issues of circulation in relation to global
art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety
of methods and approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and
objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and
presenting individual case studies. An Afterword by James Elkins gives a
critique of the present project. The book thus deliberately leaves discussion
open, inviting future responses to the large questions it poses.

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor

of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, US.

Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History,

Purdue University, US.

Batrice Joyeux-Prunel is Associate Professor of Art

History, cole normale suprieure, France.

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 Studies in Art Historiography
Series Editor: Richard Woodfield,
University of Birmingham, UK

The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history
and practice of art historical writing focusing on its institutional and
conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and
all periods. Besides addressing the major innovators of the past it also
encourages re-thinking ways in which the subject may be written in the
future. It ignores the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone
expression art history and allows and encourages the full range of enquiry
that encompasses the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics
falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist
disciplines and approaches. It welcomes contributions from young and
established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience
for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation. It
complements the work of the Journal of Art Historiography.

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 Circulations in the
Global History of Art

Edited by
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin,
and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel

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 Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables, Chart, and Maps ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgmentsxiii

Introduction: Reintroducing Circulations:

Historiography and the Project of Global Art History 1
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel

1 Reflections on World Art History 23

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

2 Art History and Iberian Worldwide Diffusion: Westernization/

Globalization/Americanization 47
Serge Gruzinski

3 Circulation and BeyondThe Trajectories of Vision in

Early Modern Eurasia 59
Monica Juneja

4 Circulations: Early Modern Architecture in the Polish-

Lithuanian Borderland 79
Carolyn Guile

5 Cultural Transfers in Art History 97

Michel Espagne

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 vi circulations in the global history of art

6 Spatial Translation and Temporal Discordance: Modes of

Cultural Circulation and Internationalization in Europe
(Second Half of the Nineteenth and First Half of the
Twentieth Century) 113
Christophe Charle

7 Mapping Cultural Exchange: Latin American

Artists in Paris between the Wars 133
Michele Greet

8 The Global NETwork: An Approach to Comparative Art History 149

Piotr Piotrowski

9 Global Conceptualism? Cartographies of Conceptual Art

in Pursuit of Decentering 167
Sophie Cras

10 The German Century? How a Geopolitical Approach Could

Transform the History of Modernism 183
Catherine Dossin and Batrice Joyeux-Prunel

Afterword 203
James Elkins

Index231

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 Figures
1.1Cross-cultural chronological
tables, from George Kubler, The Art
and Archaeology of Ancient America
(Baltimore: Penguin, 1962), xxxivxxxv.
Reproduced with permission of Yale
University Press
1.2Balkan embroiderers in Sicily,
The Coronation Mantle of the Holy Roman
Emperor, with Kufic tiraz (inscription
in Arabic), made for the coronation of
Roger II as king of Sicily, probably
c. 1133 CE. Kunsthistorisches
Museum Vienna
1.3Europeans Bringing Gifts to
Shah Jahan, 1640s or 1650s, from the
Windsor Shaname. Royal Collection,
Windsor Castle
3.1Harem and the Garden, ascribed
to Faiz Allah, 1765. Copenhagen, The
David Collection, 46/1980. Photo:
Pernille Klemp
3.2Aflatun Charms the Animals,
from the Khamsa of Nizami, The British
Library, London. The British Library
Board
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3.3Philips Galle, Saint Matthew
and the Angel, engraving, 1562, after
Maarten van Heemskerk, Flemish.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, purchased
with the support of the F.G. Waller-
Fonds
3.4Raphael Sadeler, Dolor, engraving,
1591, after Maerten de Vos (1465).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry
Brisbane Dick Fund, 1944
4.1Cupola, Boim Chapel, Lviv,
Ukraine, 160915. Photo: author
4.2Portal, Chapel of the Three
Baptists, Dormition Church, Lviv,
Ukraine, dedicated 1591, designed by
Petro Krasovsky. Photo: author
4.3Greek-Catholic church of St.
Nicholas, Ruska Bystra, Slovakia, early
eighteenth century. Photo: author
4.4Edgar Kovat, Capital, plate
XVIII, from Sposb Zakopaski/Manire
de Zakopane/Die Art Zakopane (Vienna:
Verlag von Anton Schroll; and Lww,
Gubrynowicz & Schmidt, 1899)
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7.1Acadmie Andr Lhote, undated
photograph. Andr Lhote Archives,
reproduced with permission of
Dominique Berman-Martin
7.2Pedro Figari (Uruguay) in his
studio at 13, rue du Panthon, undated
photograph. Reproduced with
permission of Fernando Saavedra
8.1Jarosaw Kozowski and Andrzej
Kostoowski, NET flyer, 1971. Courtesy
Jarosaw Kozowski
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8.2Angelo de Aquino, draft for
Through Myself (Playing on the Floor)
exhibition design, Gallery Akumulatory
2, Pozna, 1973. Courtesy Jarosaw
Kozowski
8.3Jarosaw Kozowski, Reality,
artists book, 1972. Courtesy Jarosaw
Kozowski
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 Tables, Chart, and Maps
Tables
Table 6.1Share of plays of French
origin among new productions at the
Vienna Burgtheater
Table 6.2Share of plays of French
origin among new productions at the
Knigliches Schauspielhaus, Berlin
Table 6.3Operas most performed in
Milan in 1880 and in Paris in 1912: the
first figure is for performances in that
year, the second for performances since
its first Paris production
Table 6.4Operas most attended (by
number of seats) or most performed
(number of productions) in Germany
and the US in the last decades of the
twentieth century
Chart
Chart 6.1Proportion of plays of
French origin as a percentage of
total new productions at the Berlin
Schauspielhaus and the Vienna
Burgtheater, by five-year period with
moving averages
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Maps
Map 9.1Maps localizing the 147
exhibitions listed in Six Years. Made by
the author using Philcarto
Map 9.2Maps localizing the city of
residence of participants in the 147
exhibitions listed in Six Years. Made by
the author using Philcarto
Map 9.3Maps localizing the 182
participants in Documenta V (1972).
Made by the author using Philcarto
Map 9.4Map localizing the cities
visited by On Kawara between 1968
and 1973. Made by the author
Map 10.1Avant-garde journals
established between 1914 and 1919.
Maps realized by J. Cavero with the
support of TransferS (laboratoire
dexcellence, program Investissements
davenir ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*
and ANR-10-LABX-0099
Map 10.2Avant-garde journals
established between 1920 and 1922.
Maps realized by J. Cavero with the
support of TransferS (laboratoire
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 x circulations in the global history of art
dexcellence, program Investissements
davenir ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*
and ANR-10-LABX-0099
Map 10.3Avant-garde journals
established between 1923 and 1926.
Maps realized by J. Cavero with the
support of TransferS (laboratoire
dexcellence, program Investissements
davenir ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*
and ANR-10-LABX-0099
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Map 10.4Avant-garde journals
established between 1927 and 1930.
Maps realized by J. Cavero with the
support of TransferS (laboratoire
dexcellence, program Investissements
davenir ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL*
and ANR-10-LABX-0099
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 Contributors

Christophe Charle, Professor of History, Universit Paris 1-Panthon-

Sorbonne, and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Sophie Cras, Scientific Assistant at the Deutsches Forum fr Kunstgeschichte,

Paris, France.

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and

Archaeology, Princeton University, US.

Catherine Dossin, Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University, US.

James Elkins, Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History,

Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US.

Michel Espagne, Research Director, Centre National pour la Recherche

Scientifique (CNRS) and Ecole Normale Suprieure (ENS-Ulm), Paris, and
Director of the Labex TransferS, ENS-Ulm and the Collge de France.

Michele Greet, Associate Professor of Art History, George Mason University,

US.

Serge Gruzinski, Research Director, Centre National pour la Recherche

Scientifique (CNRS) and Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.

Carolyn C. Guile, Assistant Professor of Art History, Colgate University, US.

Batrice Joyeux-Prunel, Associate Professor of Art History, Ecole Normale

Suprieure (ENS-Ulm), Paris, France.

Monica Juneja, Professor of Global Art History, Cluster Asia and Europe,
Heidelberg University, Germany.

Piotr Piotrowski, Professor Ordinarius of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz

University, Pozna, Poland.

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 Acknowledgments

The present volume began its life at The Spaces of Arts conference Artl@s
organized in September 2012 at Purdue University, and developed further
during the Peripheries conference that took place in June 2013 at the Ecole
Normale Suprieure (ENS-Ulm), the Institut National dHistoire de lArt
(INHA), and the Terra Foundation for American Art in Paris. In addition to
papers presented at these two conferences, we sought additional contributions
by Michel Espagne, Serge Gruzinski, and Monica Juneja, whose works had
been essential to our reflection.
We would like to thank the institutions that sponsored these events,
which made possible the encounters and discussions that led to this book;
namely, Artl@s, the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), the Centre
National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Labex TransferS, the
Institut dHistoire Moderne et Contemporaine (IHMC) and the Dpartement
dHistoire et Thorie des Arts of the ENS-Ulm, the Office of Vice Provost
for Research as well as the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue
University. We are particularly grateful to the Labex TransferS for supporting
the translation work, which allowed the texts to be made available to a wider
international audience.
This book would not have been possible without the scholars who
contributed their time and expertise to this project, and we are grateful
for their support, enthusiasm, and diligence. We are extremely pleased
to bring together in this volume the work of art historians, historians, and
anthropologists whose individual research highlights so well the multifaceted
importance of circulations for our fields.

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